Clinton - Gorelick Wall, 9/11, and the "Jersey Girls"

Conservative Thoughts ^ | August 10, 2005 | John Kuethe

[Wrangler22]

Jamie Gorelick was #2 at the justice department while Janet Reno was Attorney General . She was the one who erected a wall between law enforcement agencies because the Clinton administration determined that they were going to fight terrorism not as a war but as a legal matter. They were going to use indictments, and they were going to use grand jury testimony to try to prosecute terrorists and, of course, grand jury testimony is, by law, confidential, and so any information gathered by the CIA or the FBI had to be turned over to the Justice Department. When they got it and took it to the grand jury, it became confidential, could not be shared with any of the other branches. This then is one of the reasons why we couldn't "connect the dots," to prevent 9/11, why the phone calls made by military officials with Able Danger to the commission staff went unreturned.

The next question is whether or not that is what Sandy Berger was shredding. Wasn't it convenient that he did this and that Jamie Gorelick was on the 9/11 commission. Now, staff assistants of the Sept. 11 commission are going to the National Archives to retrieve their notes on a U.S. military unit's information that four of the Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers were inside the United States a year before the attacks. It appears that a new investigation into what was known before the Bush Administration took office is afoot. Will the "Jersey Girls" retract their condemnation of the Bush admiistration on all the talk shows they were on? Probably not.

[Logical me]

My question is the files Berger shredded were copies, not the original. If so, if he properly logged out those files he "lost", then wouldn't the archive replace? I hope so.